[G1 General] Christopher3712:
Progressive failure through JF1.5

I can't seem to make any sense of this...

I upgraded (manually) from ADP1.5Hr3-A2SD to JF1.5 (installed A2SD). I also upgraded my radio to the latest 2.22.19.26I. I even upgraded from JF1.42 to JF1.43. Yes, I wiped (i'm somewhat of a veteran here now). The phone worked fantastic on the JF1.5 build for the last couple of weeks (the reason why I haven't posted much lately).

Problem #1:

3 days ago, I was on a phone call leaving a voicemail. Afterwards, I pressed end (red button) to terminate the call and couldn't. I pressed menu, end call - and couldn't. I tried to soft-reboot and couldn't. I actually had to remove the battery to stop the call. When I went to start the phone up again, it hung up at the initial loading screen. I had to wipe my data then set up the phone again.

Problem #2:

The VERY NEXT DAY, I was text messaging and the "Send" button started glitching. I'd press "Send" and it would kick me back out to the messaging thread list, without sending the message. Thinking this was a random firmware glitch, I reset the phone. I then got hung up at the initial loading screen (had to be about 20 minutes). I had to wipe my data, then set the phone up again.

Problem #3:

Yesterday, I was browsing over my wifi and it kept shutting off, reverting to 3G. I rebooted the phone, got hung up on the initial loading screen. You know what I did. After the wipe, I went to install A2SD again and the phone froze. Suspecting an error with my SD card, I looked at it through Paragon Partition Manager. I showed my FAT32 partition correctly, however, my ext2 partition was now reading as a FAT32 partition with a linux drive definition. I can't make heads or tails of that. I backed up my FAT32, formatted the whole SD card, repartitioned ext2, installed A2SD and ran fine until today.

Problem #4:

My girlfriend dragged me out to a birthday dinner I didn't want to go to. :cool:

Problem #5:

On the way to that dinner, I was browsing the Market and kept getting the "Server Error" notification. First, I put my phone in airplane mode, then took it off airplane mode. Same error. With a feeling of dread, I reset the phone. I got hung up on the initial loading screen. I had to wipe my data, then set up my phone again. The good news is, this gave me an excuse not to talk to the other 12 people at the table I had absolutely no interest in. :D

***BTW: "Backup for Root Users" does not restore bookmarks in Browser, only in Steel. It does not restore your "Settings". It does not restore your SMS. It does not restore your Market Database. I know this because after the last three days, I wanted a much faster way of restoring my phone in case I had to do it on the fly like I did tonight.

After reading through this forum, where I imagine a systematic failure like this would have been documented, I saw no solution. Odds are, I'll need to reflash EVERYTHING. Curiously though, I tried a program called "TA Utility v1.0" and moved all my caches to my SD card. This was the same day of the first system error, although the crash didn't occur until a few hours later. Even though I've wiped my phone SEVERAL times in the past few days, this program remembers that all my Caches have been moved to my SD card as I keep getting "You have already moved cache of Browser/Market/Maps/StreetView" message when trying to use it again. I think this may be the problem as I understand moving caches has caused many issues (dalvik primarily). I just want to know your thoughts on this...